Following the UK and the USA, Canada has imposed new sanctions against Russian oligarchs and high-ranking officials in Ukraine’s occupied territories. The decision is announced following Putin’s announcement of the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia following sham referendums.
43 Russian oligarchs, the financial elite and members of their families, as well as the so-called "governing body" in Kherson and 35 Russia-backed senior officials in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have fallen under Canadian sanctions.
"These individuals and entity are complicit in President Putin’s desperate attempt to undermine the principles of state sovereignty, and share responsibility for the ongoing senseless bloodshed throughout Ukraine," the official statement said.
